{"product_id":"green-world-a-tragicomic-memoir-of-love-shakespeare-paperback","title":"Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love \u0026 Shakespeare - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichelle Ephraim\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything. The only child of reclusive Holocaust-survivor parents who were dismayed by her literary studies, she found herself dumped by her boyfriend and bombing out of graduate school. Then, one night, she crashed a Shakespeare recitation party. Loopy from vodka and never having read a single line of Shakespeare, she was transfixed. Shakespeare, she decided, was the lifeline she needed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreen World\u003c\/i\u003e is the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Ephraim's quest to become a Shakespeare scholar and to find community and home. As she studies Shakespeare, Ephraim's world uncannily begins to mirror the story of the Jewish daughter in \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, and she finds herself in a Green World, an idyllic place where Shakespeare's heroines escape their family trauma. \u003ci\u003eGreen World\u003c\/i\u003e reckons with global, historical, and personal tragedy and shows how literature--comic and tragic--can help us brave every kind of anguish. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e MICHELLE EPHRAIM is professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, author of \u003ci\u003eReading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays and humor pieces have appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency\u003ci\u003e, Cleaver, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post, Tikkun, Lilith, \u003c\/i\u003e and the Moth Radio Hour. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.46 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151112474759,"sku":"9781625347824","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5e87b859b748721691cda707c26910ba.webp?v=1733204692","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/green-world-a-tragicomic-memoir-of-love-shakespeare-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}